What would you ban and why? (Definitely tearoom!)

1 my wife forgot to say how many times I told her to keep to one side

2 Everything moved this morning yet complain they don't have enough staff for helping customers so where did they find them to reorganize

3 Yep that is me especially when she dives suddenly down an aisle to find the item in the next one due to number 2 above

Edited By Derek Lane on 22/07/2022 13:34:18

They move things around in the hope that as you search for what you want you'll impulse buy something else. I told the manager in our local Sainsbury that it wouldn't work on me, if I can't find it quickly I'll manage without, but it didn't seem to register. Click and collect was good during lock down, but they used it as a way of getting rid of scabby veg.

Some French supermarkets are reported to have non-chat checkouts, sounds like a job for me. They need a big notice up 'arrention, you are going to have to pay, get your purse out now' 

Edited By duncan webster on 22/07/2022 14:29:11

The deputy manager a local supermarket became our MP! Not surprisingly he is absolutely useless.

I sometimes think the electorate should be banned on the grounds of insanity.

Rant over, please don't take it further.

JA

football on main channels on evenings total disgrace

In the interest of balance...

I'd ban customers so gormless that they have no:

- idea what they want, pick up things and abandon them randomly in totally unconnected displays. Want a yoghurt? Oh, there's one between the screwdriver sets and plastic garden clogs!

- respect for the staff's display work. Plastic garden clogs? They were easy to search for your size until made a chaos emulating that among the T-shirts. Oh - that pair I espy all lonely on the loo roll stack might be my size.

- ability to understand the photograph and text on the carton, so when you arrive home and think where to install that shiny wall-lamp you realise one such type has already opened the box and lost the crucial little mounting-bracket, so has closed the box and put it back. Hopefully in the original basket, not among the yoghurts or clogs.

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The last happened to me. I took the receipt and lamp back, and suggested I search under the baskets. Sure enough, there was the lost part, huddled together with waifs and strays from other goods.

A staff member (sorry, 'colleague' ) in Aldi or Lidl told me it can take over an hour after closing to replace all the displaced goods and tidy the messed-up displays.

You would be lucky to get more than a hello and goodbye in Aldi and Lidl.

Mike

I stood behind someone in a supermarket checkout a few weeks ago for 5 minutes (I timed it) while she fiddled on her phone trying to come up with - not her method of payment - but her store loyalty card number which was phone-based. She flicked the screen backwards and forwards, backward and forwards completely inured to the mutterings of me and others and the glare of the checkout clerk.

Finally she did find it then paid (with her phone) in a few seconds (only a little longer than it took me to tap my debit card when it was my turn).

Thankfully we don't have air-miles any more.

Steven Vine -

The 'phones at shop tills yes, I go with that one, but I think you've rather shot yourself in the foot by wanting to ban shop workers having Sundays off. Does anyone genuinely need go shopping on a Sunday?

Still, it's heartening to read that you are so busy on Sundays (in your workshop presumably) that you've failed to notice that Sing Something Simple has ceased to be.... probably still in Light Programme days!

(To my relief. I never liked that bland, angelic-choir / barbershop style. And no, I do not advocate banning it!)

Absolutely, I hardly ever turn the TV on these days, but my god, the way certain people deem kicking a ball around a field to be worthy of interrupting other things is absurd, I genuinely would like to ban football from anything other than sport specific channels.

Hi, I agree that sports of all types should not take over primetime TV and I also think they should have dedicated channels for all sports. The one thing I would really like to see banned is photos and videos (usually taken on mobiles by people who don't know how to use a camera properly) where the photo or video is split either side of the main photo/video and is blurry of various degrees, whoever thought of that should be put in clink for a year and made to write out all day and every day, "I must not make blurred photos and videos" These frustrate my vision and you get no warning of them like you do when flashing images are shown.

Regards Nick.

I notice that on the BBC website 'local' news option if I put in a Devon location I get local news if I put in an Hertfordshire location I am overwhelmed by football 'news'

Picking up on the Scorchio thread mentioning solar panels (lack of) perhaps everywhere needs a ban on petty regulations obstructing domestic solar installations.

There are news channels - why do we have to pollute main channels with news?

I'd like to ban cyclists riding on pavements and pedestrianised areas, what! it's already illegal? well how come they are getting away with it then.??

I'm not talking about children here, adults, some with all the gear on are the worst offenders. In one hour I counted nine cyclists riding through our local pedestrianised high street, four of them stupidly fast and weaving in and out of the shoppers, a small sign at one end says cyclists dismount. It's worse for me because I'm considerably deaf and can't hear them approaching from behind.

Even on shared pathways they think it's perfectly o.k to go as fast as they can and come up behind you with no warning. How many of them even have a bell? if you suddenly stepped aside they would smash your legs to pieces because they can't stop.

The recent highway code updates are for pedestrian priority, drivers have to give priority to cyclists or face fines because they have number plates and can be traced, seemingly cyclists can get away with anything they please and ride off if involved in any accident.

It’s absurd that cyclists and motorists share the same tarmac. The days of almost no traffic are long gone. I’m also frustrated by the weekend motorcyclists burning their way down winding welsh roads taking blind corners in the middle of the road with no thought that there may be vehicles coming from the other direction - or a slow tractor or a flock of sheep.

Yes, I agree that there are a lot of people who are selfish enough to ride unlawfully on pavements. And yes, how surprising it is that some people actually break the law. But the statistics show that cyclists are 14 times more likely to be killed on the road than car occupants, so it's perhaps understandable.

It's not like any motorist - ever - exceeded the speed limit and got away with it, is it?

As a cyclist I would ban the bloke at the local council who designates cycle paths. My local authority keep designating new cycle paths only problem is they are 1m wide footways to be shared with pedestrians. Apparently it will work if you put up the blue 'Hang On To Children - Beware Of Low Flying Bikes' sign... I think not

John

I would like lorries & the local school bus to keep to their side of the road when there is ample room to do so. I would like the porche driver who smashed my wing mirror the other day when I had slowed to <10mph in a 30 zone whilst he careered down the middle at over 40MPH to burn in hell. I would like to ban the oversized camper vans that drive on the wrong side of the white line at every corner & even on straight roads as if they are entitled to extra room. Same goes for the oversized farm tractors & trailers that can easily keep to their side when passing their mates going the other way but seem to ignore every other road user.

In fact I think white lines should be reconstructed with great spikes to puncture any tyres of those who cross them.

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Your last line devalues your reply. Drivers caught speeding are fined, cyclists riding recklessly are not because currently there is no way to track the rider.

You say the reason they cycle on the pathways is because it's safer which is probably true, but should they then ride at speed as though they are on the roadway and risk injury to kids and dogs who might suddenly move to one side?

If you're describing what I think you are, these are photos and, more particularly, videos taken by moron phone users ("it's easier to hold the phone that way"  ) in vertical orientation. Videos particularly are uncomfortable for the viewer in that orientation so many sources add blurry bits either side to make in look "more horizontal". It doesn't, of course.

Vertical orientation, as with any camera, may work for stills as long as the scene suits that orientation (most don't) and blurry bits at the side are not really called for then.

Banning moron phone users might be a better way.

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 23/07/2022 17:10:30